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Poll: The sagging popularity of the tea parties
WaPo ^ | June 8, 2010 | David Weigel

Posted on 06/08/2010 12:02:26 PM PDT by smokingfrog

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll includes questions about the tea parties that have the nascent movement's popularity slipping badly. Overall, since the last poll, the percentage of Americans who hold an unfavorable view of the movement has jumped from 39 percent to 50 percent. The leading edge of that has been a collapse in support from 18-29-year-olds. In March, they had a positive, 43-38 view of the tea parties. They've swung hard to a negative view, 27-60.

One result that surprises me: a seeming tumble in tea party support from white Southerners. In March, only 30 percent had an unfavorable view of the movement. Now, it's 45 percent.

I don't think this is really a sign of anti-incumbent anger ending -- the results on voter views of incumbents dispel that notion. Since the last poll, however, we have had two months of news about tea party-identified Republicans winning their primaries or leading in them, which has started to diminish the independent brand of the movement.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010electionbias; polls; pravdamedia; teaparty; zogbyism
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To: Mouton
I agree with you. Maybe the Libs will be so happy they'll just stay home in the upcoming elections. After all, if ABC say something, it must be true. /sarc.
21 posted on 06/08/2010 12:14:23 PM PDT by Shannon
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To: Longbow1969

If the DEms can have Byrd and Rockefeller, the GoP can have Rand and Rubio


22 posted on 06/08/2010 12:14:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: Mouton

But if it keeps the libs happy
Just another mushroom dream. Lett’em think it come november it will be hangover time for the liberals/communists.


23 posted on 06/08/2010 12:14:45 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: smokingfrog
Poll sample size: 6 former ACORN employees.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

24 posted on 06/08/2010 12:14:48 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: smokingfrog

By the way, is the WashPoo still running a daily tally of the deaths in Iraq?

Or was that just while George Bush was president?


25 posted on 06/08/2010 12:20:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: NormsRevenge
If the DEms can have Byrd and Rockefeller, the GoP can have Rand and Rubio

Rubio is fine. I am not saying we can't have candidates with some libertarian views or somewhat out of the mainstream ideas. What I am saying is we should never nominate a Paul. The father is nuts and his Paulbot followers remind me of Larouchies. The son seems to have some of the same ideas and it is only a matter of time before we find out he's been hanging around with Truthers and Anti-War wacko's.

26 posted on 06/08/2010 12:21:06 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: smokingfrog

Maybe they are polling congressmen and finding that Congress does not like tea parties.


27 posted on 06/08/2010 12:21:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: smokingfrog
"There are no tea parties. Just tricks and illusions.
We won..."


28 posted on 06/08/2010 12:21:36 PM PDT by avacado
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To: smokingfrog

Where’s the barf tag ???


29 posted on 06/08/2010 12:21:41 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: smokingfrog

See Ed Morrissey’s comments at HotAir here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/08/wapo-poll-dont-get-cocky-gop/

It’s not the least possible bias on the sample.


30 posted on 06/08/2010 12:21:54 PM PDT by Blagden Alley
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To: Longbow1969

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt he won’t go down that path,, for now,, like Brown.

To say the politics of today is in turmoil and flux like none seen for quite awhile if ever is an understatement,, there are gonna be ‘bumps’.


31 posted on 06/08/2010 12:23:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: mrmeyer

You’ll have to dig up Bob.


32 posted on 06/08/2010 12:24:56 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Keith Olbermann day after the 2010 election...

Shades of 2004...


33 posted on 06/08/2010 12:25:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: smokingfrog
Wishful thinking??

Yep. I do hope the local tea parties keep visible and active. It can get pretty tiring fighting demons all the time. Hope we don't get pooped out.

34 posted on 06/08/2010 12:27:58 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Blagden Alley

25R/38I/34D? No bias here at all./s


35 posted on 06/08/2010 12:28:15 PM PDT by princeofdarkness ("Obama Lied. Liberty, Morality, and Prosperity Died.")
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To: smokingfrog
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll includes questions about the tea parties that have the nascent movement's popularity slipping badly. Overall, since the last poll, the percentage of Americans who hold an unfavorable view of the movement has jumped from 39 percent to 50 percent. The leading edge of that has been a collapse in support from 18-29-year-olds. In March, they had a positive, 43-38 view of the tea parties. They've swung hard to a negative view, 27-60.

Exact numbers aside, there's probably more truth than falsity to these results.

Why?

Precisely because the Tea Party groups eschew any sort of coordinated action, platform, or message. To those not already involved, there's nothing to define the Tea Parties beyond what they're against.

As some of us have been saying all along, outrage and emotion can only get you so far, before folks just begin to lose interest.

36 posted on 06/08/2010 12:28:37 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Longbow1969

RINOs have the same opinion you do !!!

Funny that.


37 posted on 06/08/2010 12:29:22 PM PDT by o2bfree (This president is giving me a headache!)
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To: smokingfrog

FUWAPO

Let’s see the election results, shall we?
The only thing sagging is Helen Thomas


38 posted on 06/08/2010 12:30:44 PM PDT by silverleaf (Every time history repeats itself the price goes up)
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To: Longbow1969

BINGO


39 posted on 06/08/2010 12:31:05 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: o2bfree

Rand Paul IS a RINO.

Like his father, the ONLY area in which he is conservative is economics.


40 posted on 06/08/2010 12:32:02 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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